README

# GENERAL INFORATION
Journal: Comparative Political Studies.
Paper title: “This is what the Bolsheviks do”: How democratic politicians use foreign revolutions to attract voters
Author: Nicholas Buhmann-Holmes

# FILES

# Replication code
- "appendix_d_code". Contains code for replicating results of appendix D. This code also replicates the main models of the article.
- "descriptive_stats". Contains code for replicating descriptive statistics.
- "figures_analysis". Contains code for replicating figures of analysis.
- "wordscores_code". Contains code for replicating Wordscores results, necessary for replicating Wordscores regressions and plots.

# Data
- "df_ft_all_final.rda". Contains main data for replicating results of analysis (except for Wordscores).
- "df_ws_dummy.RData". Contains data for replicating results with Wordscores subset (appendix D8).
- "wordscores_combined.RData". Contains data for creating Wordscores plot (figure 7).
- "df_ft_all_53_72.rda". Contains data for replicating appendix D10.

# Codebook
- "codebook". Codebook for df_ft_all_final.rda. 

All code is run in R.



